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Pythagoras and the Delphic Mysteries (Paperback)
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Pythagoras and the Delphic Mysteries (Paperback)
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Loot Price R452
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Although appearing in the full light of historical times,
Pythagoras has come down to us as almost a legendary character. The
main reason for this is the terrible persecution of which he was
the victim in Sicily, and which cost so many of his followers their
lives. Some were crushed to death beneath the ruins of their
burning schools, others died of hunger in temples. The Master's
memory and teaching were only perpetuated by such survivors as were
able to escape into Greece. Plato, at great trouble and cost,
obtained through Archytas a manuscript of the Master, who, it must
be mentioned, never transferred to writing his esoteric teachings
except under symbols and secret characters. His real work, like
that of all reformers, was effected by oral instruction. The
essence of the system, however, comes down to us in the Golden
Verses of Lysis, the commentary of Hierocles, fragments of
Philolaus and in the Timaeus of Plato, which contains the cosmogony
of Pythagoras. To sum up, the writers of antiquity are full of the
spirit of the Croton philosopher. They never tire of relating
anecdotes depicting his wisdom and beauty, his marvellous power
over men. The Neoplatonists of Alexandria, the Gnostics, and even
the early Fathers of the Church quote him as an authority. These
are precious witnesses through whom may be felt continually
vibrating that mighty wave of enthusiasm the great personality of
Pythagoras succeeded in communicating to Greece, the final eddies
of which were still to be felt eight hundred years after his death.
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